It is included here as a separate page because significant conservation activities are being undertaken in this conservation land, as part of Project River Recovery.

Important Bird Areas on Tasman River: links to 6-page PDF file that includes maps, habitat types, and threats relevant to this river. This document was extracted from Forest & Bird’s 177-page 20Mb file on all rivers, lakes, and coastal areas.

Water from the Hooker Glacier feeds into the Tasman River from the western side of Aoraki Mt Cook (centre background)

The breeding success of several braided river birds – wrybill,banded dottereland black-fronted tern – is being monitored over five years to assess whether this level of predator control is helping these birds.

Tasman Glacier (foreground – darker areas are moraine over the ice) on the eastern side of Aoraki Mt Cook (right), and Tasman River (centre back)